µblog - archive for 2010-04

Apartment to be cleaned for the open showing on Sunday, I’m starting to think this shit ain’t worth it

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Apple has fanboys, Google has fanboys, MSFT has fanboys… I guess Photoshop has them… but does Flash? #godhatesflash

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AWSUM “Hugo Chavez Asks Fidel Castro to Join Twitter” http://bit.ly/dxwHIL

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Big night out for Stockholm’s teens, a good number of them will stomach-pumped later #valborg

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random fact: Japan has 17 times the population density of Sweden

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cute, NPR has its own link shorterner URL: n.pr. Not that npr.org is that long

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finished Band of Brothers yesterday, I kinda like The Pacific better actually

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dear lazyweb, anyone know how to show week numbers in Google Calendar?

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Week numbers in Google Calendar, subscribe to g0k1sv1gsdief8q28kvek83ps4@group.calendar.google.com (via @hult)

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Grant McLennan was a friggin genius #aussiepop

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best site found today: Radioactive Consumer Products http://is.gd/bLBzy - includes cat litter, tape dispensers

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Why people can’t be arsed to move more than 2 steps into the subway carriage eludes me #idiots #stockholm

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dudes being a politician is a “real job” too. May be a shitty useless job, but it’s work

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Bus 74 is eerily empty this morning

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photogeeks love gimmicks like HDR and panoramas because it lets them spend more time computing than shooting #photog

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hmm the #Spotify app doesn’t offer to auto-update to the new version? That’s a bit #lame, innit?

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haha Skatteverket har delningslänkar till Twitter osv på sina sidor, det är lite coolt men också lite skitnödigt #web20 #fb

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I wonder why the Drive-By Truckers are classed as alt-country and not simply rock? http://open.spotify.com/track/4FgpUqrNPbSG8bFViHPqz3

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finally done with the SXSW torrents, winnowed them down to 50 odd tracks

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I’m pretty sure if Steve Jobs was prez Jason Chen would be in iGitmo now #iphone4g

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o/~ Help Save the Youth of America - http://is.gd/bJQRQ #seewhatididthere

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testar #Skatteverkets ärendehantering via epost #fb

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Hmm twitter in WirelessIRC isn’t updating?

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ahahhah alla som blir brända av skumma skitartister i sin nya Spotify får mig att vilja vara kvar på classic #fb

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The Pacific’s opening score beats Band of Brothers’ schmaltzy choir to a reddened pulp

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Whoah dude my age with a Barbour satchel #moremoneythansense #oldbeforehistime #hipsterfail

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even if Sony’s going to stop selling floppy disks, it’s still the icon for “Save file” in lots of programs. Computer appendix!

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Headline in Metro: “after the ash disaster, the pollen-chock!”

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I can’t believe there’s a local race condition in emacs’ movemail function again #freebsd #emacs

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Teknisk fysik på KTH <5:e> mest populära civing program, efter typ all Indek-program: http://bit.ly/9ymMm1 #kth #fb

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ah the joys of remote support: downloading a 82M file from a customer via UMTS

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Finally on my way home!

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you know what would effing rock? A pancake 45/2.8 af-s Nikkor #gearwank #photog

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seriously, if you’re a student and have an iPhone you are legally barred from complaining about how poor you are #kidsthesedays #fb

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i think tonight will be some R&R, back into the prettify-the-apt trenches tomorrow! #toomanywarmovies

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.@janole @jfourgeaud @caaarlo the Hipstamatic app on the iPhone is one way to go, Holga that crap camera

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om ni ska söka avdrag för hushållsarbete inför deklarationen så är det blankett SKV 4501 som gäller! #fb

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Korv Stroganoff FTW! Nu ska det planteras äppelträd i kruka #medelklassmys #fb

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great sense of entitlement http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/544097636/developing-art-world

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På Indian Garden på Söder för lördagsmiddag efter en produktiv dag! #fb

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buy our apartment! http://www.hemnet.se/beskrivning/651547 #fb

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wow The Pacific has me hooked! Can’t wait for the next episode

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man I wonder who pays for Sean Reid’s writing, cos it’s not very good http://is.gd/bFgky #photog

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wow McNulty in The Wire and Leckie in The Pacific are like peas in a pod

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wow that @daringfireball post about the poor little lost iPhone was totally TL;DR. Dudes need to be chillin’

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Hell hath no lengthy blog posts like a @gruber scorned

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``Dear Iceland, we asked you to send CASH, not ash. Rgds, The UK’’ – my cuz Jonte, on FB

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dear lazyweb, I’d like to script some tasks in a web interface on Windows XP. Good tips for a s/w package for this?

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estate agent’s ad copy makes us want to buy the apartment we’re selling, good sign

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channeling my innner @gruber by complaining about the UI of an internal app at work

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Winter has made a comeback in Stockholm, 3C and rain

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April is the cruelest month etc

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looked into the irssi /recode documentation and fixed sending UTF-8 from #tircd, yay!

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so far The Pacific is slathered in that patented Speilberg-Hanks Sentimental Sauce

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so far the Supreme Court justices have proven to be smarter than most tech journos

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big influx of customers at work today, “where’s your namebadge?” Namebadge, what namebadge? #snafu

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they may have thought they sent a reminder mail to order nametags but they didn’t #sothere

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why are the flight cancellations beating earthquake in Tibet? Journalists don’t live in Tibet

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ok time to document howto update stuff in FreeBSD

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somehow it’s always CUPS that needs to be updated on Unix systems. Active development or really bad code?

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the #iPad is just a physical paywall for media companies and it will fail as such #pundit

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here’s a protip if you have a school-issued laptop: put some duct tape over the camera #webcamgate

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photo of @DougCoupland and a border crossing story http://www.keatleyphoto.com/blog/archives/4116

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Jobs said ‘no iPads for Europe’, the volcano erupts. Coincidence? I THINK NOT

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countertops look much nicer now!

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interesting to read that “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” is a US movie phenomenom http://bit.ly/ezSOD (HT @RussB)

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Wow a train to Mörby was waiting at Slussen. Awesome

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SR says Iranian regime won over protestors. Never forget, IRL truncheons beats tweets

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man this day is not looking good so far :P

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set up #tircd with debugging so I can try to find out why I can’t tweet w/ unicode characters

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being a fanboy means you’re letting your consumer choices determine your personality. Is that what you want?

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timezones and DST are a fucking pain in the behind

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lunch at my desk, oh joy #work #fail

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finally checked in my little pet project into the main source control

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today in the wide end, 24mm is the new 28mm. I happen to think 24mm is a tad too wide #photog

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mounted the 28 series E after a month of 18/3.5. Love that lens but it’s bulky as all hell #photog

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wow the inbox is full of cancelled meetings for the auditors who are stuck in London

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Swedish copyfighters all up in arms over warrantless laptop searches at US borders… hello, welcome to 2008

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yay new Foyle’s War ep up on tvtorrents!

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all this whining about the iPad threatening free speech is amazing, it’s a $600 luxury item fer chrissake http://is.gd/bz5oA

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I’m no vulcanologist, but this can’t be good http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/Katla2009/stodvaplott.html #ashtag

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F Katla, fear the Yellowstone supervolcano! #ashtag #doom

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why the HELL do I need to restart after Adobe Reader is updated? Seriously, WHY??? #adobe #fail

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great now I’m logged out of the CRM system

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det vore inte Expressen utan binde-streck: “Vulkan-askan”

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why am I hating on the freetards so much lately? Must be the stuff they put in the Kool-Aid at the office!!!

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.@Eorlingur I’m installing Foxit tomorrow, life’s too short for Adobe software

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the Donner party only ate a dog, not themselves? Why must the myths be busted? http://is.gd/bxQDx

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I can’t believe I’m at #IKEA on a Spring Sunday. Customer density is unbelievable. Lunch queue miles long. #1stworldproblems

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investing in a blue bag at#IKEA

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wow this comparatively piddly eruption on Iceland now could trigger Katla: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katla

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wtf I lost my screen session

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bra artikel om @xboxflickan i dagens SvD! #fb

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Customers - every answer they give just raises more questions #work #demotivators

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ok earthquakes, global warming, ashen plumes of doom - Mother Nature’s a bitch and she’s hoppin’ mad! #ashtag

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maybe we need a volcano-induced nuclear winter to deal with global warming #balance

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I feel I have a good flow dealing with issues now.

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Tactical query: start working on the weekend list this evening or relax and gather energy for Sat-Sun?

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På väg till dansen för att hämta Viking #fb

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Hos #Folktandvården med Viking #fb

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Erry day I’m reminded that I’m lucky to have neither a car or a house

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wtf still can’t open attachments in our case handling system? That’s not good … #work #fail

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UK and Scandiwegians, be sure to add the following tag to all volcano-related tweets: #ashtag

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I’m betting this dude is single http://sites.google.com/site/khromtor/

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finally got to listen to Miss Li. Not a fan

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first they destroy the world economy, and now we can’t fly! BLAME ICELAND!

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good writeup on the Volcanic Ash Cloud of Doom: http://is.gd/btWft #ashtag

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a perfect nerdstorm: atheism, stick figures, and Mythbusters http://bit.ly/cRelrI

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giving Wolfram|Alpha fits with my input

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New Nokia E5 looks very interesting! http://is.gd/bqNw8

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the next Facebook will appear when teenagers realise they’re “friends” with their parents and flee #predictions #fb

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mmm new MacBook Pro 13” now has 4GB memory in the base config polishes credit card

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damnit the Nokia E5 won’t drop until summer??? Let’s hope my faithful E61 holds out until then!

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for all my bloviating about the #iPad, this entire manufactured brawls between Apple and Adobe bores me to tears

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gotta love how when IE freezes, so does Windows Explorer. Thanks M$ for that “integration”!

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one problem with the popularity of micro-4/3s is that used prices are high

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Katyn, Khatyn, what is difference? Quite a lot actually http://bit.ly/bkdYnJ (via @mjomark)

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“Any plan that assumes the perfection of the human race is doomed to failure”

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Nice, the pedestrian walkway from work to the subway has been swept clean of gravel #spring

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back watching the Wire season 3… it’s a damn high-quality show

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back from a trip to Sickla, lovely weather! I needed it yesterday when I was puttering around the terrace

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fascinating vignette from the Finnish Continuation War 1941-1944 http://is.gd/bopHS

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time to catch up on the Mobitopian’s blogs in Reader

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another reason DRM is bad for business: e-ARC’s aren’t worth @scalzi’s time http://is.gd/bmT2b

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I think KT Tunstall’s intro music to ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ is the best part of the film :P

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no multitasking in #iPhone OS4? Guess we’ll have to wait for OS version 10 if history’s any guide ;)

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ok apparently I didn’t read enough in the #iPhone OS4 announcement, there is apparently multitasking. My bad

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haha, “RPG” is actually a backronym from the original Russian. Thanks, Wikipedia!

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Activision: “Urdu, Arabic, what is difference?” http://www.inquisitr.com/54229/modern-warfare-2-is-culturally-sensitive/

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``[The US federal govermnent is] essentially a huge insurance company with an army’’ – Paul Krugman

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closing cases like a maniac! #work

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YES! Cracked my first “current” problem in #projecteuler! Problem 283 took a long time but was worth it!

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bah had WirelessIRC connected all night, drained the ole battery

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Hint to social marketers, if someone tweets <your company> and “crap” at the same time, don’t follow them

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got my #projecteuler mojo back (I hope!). Cracked problem 98, perl very helpful here

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Massive public transport fail in Stockholm due to a tragic accident

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this big new monitor I got today just emphasizes how puny my laptop is

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Testing a quick post from #gravity, lessee if it turns up in #tircd!

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solved #projecteuler problem 95 with some googling and a hunch

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Thanks for the 4-day weekend, zombie Jesus! #fb

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birds are singing outside the open office window #spring

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all the Easter candy at the office has been snarfed, I miss it :P

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amateur photos “too good” to be printed http://techdirt.com/articles/20100331/1100018810.shtml #photog

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photos “too good” to be printed http://techdirt.com/articles/20100331/1100018810.shtml #photog

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regarding the Hugo Award, what’s the diff between a novella and a novelette?

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Nice to hear that travel #photog Bob Krist still uses DX format for weight reasons #imagedoctors #podcast

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Started playing GTA4 on the #xbox #runninglate

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Planning to get me some Xbox Live, can you get that w/ a credit card like a grownup or do you need to buy a prepaid card? #clueless #xbox

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right after I buy a month’s Live Gold membership for 7EUR, Leo says you can get it for 1EUR #fml #xbox

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omg Adobe Reader is such a huge honking pile of festering mammoth dung

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lol best AFJ today RT @Spotify libspotify now available for CP/M http://bit.ly/byIJ84

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Cory @doctorow and Charles Stross to write an Atlas Shrugged sequel! http://is.gd/b9ACO

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ok that #xkcd Lulnix interface is cute, but geeking out like that is a bit precious nowadays

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haha Lilla My cosplay http://is.gd/ba2rJ #moomin

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